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Tsunami warning ends in British Columbia after earthquake off Alaska

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Tsunami warnings in British Columbia and Alaska have been cancelled following a magnitude 7.9 earthquake off Alaska’s Kodiak Island.

The National Tsunami Center said the warnings have been downgraded to advisories.

Tsunami warning sirens were going off in Tofino and other coastal communities early Tuesday morning after the powerful earthquake struck around 1:30 a.m.

The earthquake had a preliminary reading of 8.2 and struck 278 kilometres southeast of Kodiak at a depth of about 10 kilometres.

The warning was issued for the Juan de Fuca Strait coast, the outer west coast of Vancouver Island, the central coast and northeast Vancouver Island, and the north coast and Haida Gwaii. It did not include Vancouver.

Emergency Info BC was advising anyone in a tsunami warning area to evacuate inland or to higher ground above and beyond designated tsunami hazard zones or move to an upper floor of a multi-story building depending on their situation.

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